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nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social
THE PEGGIE JUDGMENT IS OUT + THE RESULT IS NOT HOW MEDIA IS PRESENTING IT

This case doesn’t say employers can’t allow trans women to use women’s changing rooms.

Quite the opposite: FWS doesn’t make that inherently unlawful. It all depends on context.
#EmploymentLaw #EqualityAct #WorkplaceInclusion
December 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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lukemcgee.bsky.social
Bring back three-wheeled cars for disabled drivers, Reform urges

Incredible …

www.thetimes.com/article/e8e5...
Bring back three-wheeled cars for disabled drivers, Reform urges
The chief whip, Lee Anderson, suggests return of ‘Invacars’, which were withdrawn on safety grounds, as part of a replacement of the Motability scheme
www.thetimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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tacc.org.uk
Letter sent to JCHR and WEC from The Trans Exile Network and the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective 1/2
Letter on organizational letterhead with logos for "Trans Advocacy & Complaints Collective" and "Trans Exile Network." Addressed to UK officials, dated 18 October 2025, discussing legal actions related to rights and equality in Council of Europe. Text document discussing the UK’s non-compliance with rulings on transsexual rights. It outlines legal actions and laws like the Gender Recognition Act. A legal document discusses UK trans rights under specific acts, court judgments, and European obligations. It questions compliance with equality norms. Text-heavy document titled "Closing points" discusses legal issues for transsexual people in the UK regarding recognition and rights, referencing European human rights.
October 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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tacc.org.uk
🚨 Joint Statement

This formal challenge to the EHRC’s fitness for purpose has been brought by @transactualuk.bsky.social, @amnestyuk.bsky.social k.bsky.social and @transsolidarity.bsky.social

Together they have reported the EHRC
to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI)
Joint statement Joint statement Joint statement Joint statement
October 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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reactiveashley.cat
1/🧵 I am viewing a never-before-seen file on “gender reassignment” or trans inclusion policy at the National Archives, Kew. The Supreme Court should start sweating. A bagful of receipts!
A close-up, angled shot of a pink paper file cover from the UK "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH," resting on a light wood-grain surface. The "SUBJECT" is handwritten in large blue capital letters: "GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT".
October 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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tomgordonld.bsky.social
The Council of Europe has warned that the UK gov’s treatment of trans people may breach human rights law.

This must be a wake up call.

We’ve seen an increase in hostility towards trans in recent years.

Everyone deserves dignity, safety, & respect - that includes trans people.
October 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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tacc.org.uk
We are hearing of many reports that MPs have not been contacted, we need to get emails sent by as many constituents as possible.
tacc.org.uk TACC @tacc.org.uk · Sep 29
We urge everyone to contact your MP to call for proper scrutiny, debate and a free vote on the draft Code, using our template:

Please share this! 5/
tacc.org.uk TACC @tacc.org.uk · Sep 1
We’re also calling on individuals to act. Use our template to email your MP, share your concerns, and demand proper scrutiny, debate and a free vote on the EHRC Code. Every voice counts. Find the template here:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
October 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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cassetteboy.bsky.social
New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
September 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social
Timeline cleanser 🐈
September 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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flsjournal.bsky.social
📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers

We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.

Details below. Please share.
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights. While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…
September 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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libdems.org.uk
Liberal Democrats cannot support mandatory digital IDs. People shouldn't be criminalised just because they don't want to hand over their private data.
“Liberal Democrats cannot support a mandatory digital ID where people are forced to turn over their private data just to go about their daily lives... People shouldn’t be turned into criminals just because they can’t have a digital ID, or choose not to.” — Victoria Collins, Liberal Democrat Science, Innovation and Technology Spokesperson.
September 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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charleyhasted.bsky.social
Interesting that every time we discuss women's rights at Lib Dem Conference the group that claims to care so deeply about "the rights of women and girls" is completely and utterly absent.
September 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
peke-a-poo.bsky.social
An interesting read on Kirk, stochastic terrorism and his increasing anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric over the years, especially if you’re into data analysis. eveywinters.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...
Charlie Kirk and The Hate Speech Algorithm
Prologue
eveywinters.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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tacc.org.uk
Trans Legal Clinic need your support in funding this case. We all have a duty to do something, even sharing this will help, share it other platforms and to allies.

If you can please donate to help fund this case, this is the most important part of the restoration of the our rights:
August 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
peke-a-poo.bsky.social
Thank you Wendy. I'm also very pleased to see @ollyglover.bsky.social has signed this too. Thank you very much Olly.
wendychambld.bsky.social Wendy Chamberlain MP @wendychambld.bsky.social · Sep 12
I’ve signed this letter calling for full parliamentary scrutiny of the EHRC’s guidance.

Trans people deserve clarity, dignity, and safe access to services - not uncertainty and exclusion. Parliament must ensure that any guidance reflects lived experience and protects everyone’s rights.
September 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
peke-a-poo.bsky.social
Hi @ollyglover.bsky.social have you seen this?
philippaeast.bsky.social Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · Sep 5
@equalityhumanright.bsky.social are withholding their consultation report till after the Code is a “done deal”

But we sent copies of the public’s submissions direct to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social & @niagriffith.bsky.social

Any MPs can view this dossier *right now*

Share this post and❗tag your MP❗
As the EHRC refuses to make public evidence for its new guidance, MPs can find out how trans people have responded by asking the Minister Post author By jane fae Post date 5 September 2025 For immediate release: 5 September 2025 Our friends at TACC have discovered yet more evidence of shocking EHRC cover-up. An FOI request reveals that the EHRC is not planning to publish a report on its public consultation until AFTER its new Code of Practice has gone all the way through Parliament, and is a “done deal”. FOI re. EHRC consultation process FOI re. EHRC consultation process When the new Code is laid in Parliament, MPs will have 40 days to carefully scrutinise and evaluate it. But how can they carry out this important Parliamentary duty without any insight into the public’s 50,000+ submissions to the EHRC’s obligatory consultation? MPs will have no idea whether the EHRC integrated any of those stakeholder responses into its finalised Code – or ignored them entirely. Luckily, TransActual and TACC anticipated exactly this problem. They asked individuals and organisations to share their EHRC public consultation submissions with them. The result was a massive 10-volume dossier, which we have delivered directly to the heart of Government. Spread of pages from TransActual EHRC consultation doc Spread of pages from TransActual EHRC consultation doc Any MP who genuinely wants to know the questions, fears and concerns the public have raised about the EHRC’s new Code doesn’t need to sit in the dark while the EHRC conceals its report until it is too late. They simply need to go to the offices of Equalities Ministers Bridget Phillipson and Nia Griffith, and ask to read the completely uncensored submissions already in their possession.
September 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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philippaeast.bsky.social
Open letter calling for an inquiry into the EHRC. I’ve just signed.

organise.network/actions/peti...
Screenshot from the above webpage. To Women & Equalities Committee We, the undersigned, write to express serious and urgent concerns about the actions of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the apparent unwillingness of the Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) to investigate them. It is becoming increasingly clear that the EHRC is no longer operating as an impartial human rights body. Over the past several years, its leadership has shifted in a direction that appears ideologically driven, hostile to trans equality, and closely aligned with lobbying groups who advocate for the removal of legal protections for transgender people. These groups - including Sex Matters, Policy Exchange, and the LGB Alliance - have played a significant role in reshaping public discourse and influencing legal interpretations of the Equality Act 2010. We are calling on the Women and Equalities Committee to launch an immediate and transparent inquiry into: - The EHRC’s internal decision-making processes regarding the definition of “sex” under the Equality Act 2010; - All communications, meetings, and correspondence between the EHRC and external lobbying organisations from 2020 to the present; - The EHRC’s advice to government departments, ministers, and the courts—especially its role in shaping the outcome of For Women Scotland v The Lord Advocate [2024] UKSC 59. As transgender people and allies, we are gravely concerned that this advice, and the EHRC’s developing policy stance have been influenced not by human rights or evidence, but by ideological lobbying and political convenience. We must understand who the EHRC has been speaking to, what was said, and why these decisions were made. Anything less is a dereliction of democratic oversight.
June 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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stradiwhovius.bsky.social
lmao get her
Boy George wrecking JK Rowling
June 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
peke-a-poo.bsky.social
@goodlawproject.org I think you may have a website issue.
Domain configuration error.
June 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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carlyasilvers.bsky.social
The #EHRC are taking delivery of their new Non-Section 8 toilets today for use by trans visitors to Tintagel House
June 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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reactiveashley.cat
Please sign this. We need 5 signatures to get this new petition published.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Petition: Bring section 14 of the Equality Act 2010 into effect so trans people are safe
Parliament must urgently overturn the decision in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers. Once section 14 of the Equality Act 2010 comes into force, the Government will have the opportunity t...
petition.parliament.uk
June 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
peke-a-poo.bsky.social
Amazingly some MPs now don’t believe Starmer that the SC ruling brought ‘clarity’. Funny that!

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
‘A real mess’: splits emerge in Labour over supreme court’s gender ruling
Growing number of MPs are questioning Keir Starmer’s claim that ruling has brought ‘clarity’ to issue
www.theguardian.com
May 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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humanrightsvicky.bsky.social
After recent revelations about the EHRC thanks to @tacc.org.uk this is no surprise. The EHRC is toast. Resign, Baroness Falkner, its over. Did you inform the Supreme Court that EHRC met & liaised with the GCIM over your guidance before the court case? Do answer.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
MPs fear UK equality watchdog may take months to sign off gender guidance
Exclusive: EHRC insiders believe process could drag on until after its chair is replaced in November
www.theguardian.com
May 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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naoarte.bsky.social
Got a Labour MP? Post them this.
May 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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ameresolicitor.bsky.social
Lady Hale remains my favourite Supreme Court judge:
May 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM